Many sources document the weakness of the paper record in today's information-intensive healthcare systems. Records are often illegible or incomplete and have inaccurate data and information. Paper records also take a great deal of nursing time. Estimates in the literature note that they consume betweeen 25% and 50% of a nurse's time. Additionally, paper records often require the same data to be entered in more than one place. Clinicians may even scribble notes on whatever paper is available, including paper towels and worse, then transcribe the data later, a process that may also lead to errors or omissions in data entry or to clinician time lost waiting to use the record.

As the transition away from paper records continues, healthcare delivery is becoming increasingly mobile as hospital administrators and clinicians are starting to realize the benefits of data access and capture at the point of care. More so now that we see professionals visiting and treating patients outside of the usual centers.

When properly used, nursing informatics has the potential to improve patient care as well as to make the value that nursing adds to healthcare visible. Patient care can be improved in several ways. MyPatients can reduce the burden of paperwork on clinicians, as well as improve the communications that take up so much of a nurses's time. 

Wireless and multimedia technologies are seen as key enablers of point-of-care solutions, responding to the need to increase the quality and efficiency of care while decreasing the cost of care delivery. With MyPatients, healthcare professionals can record all relevant patient data at the point of care, increasing efficiency while drastically reducing errors and time spent on paper records.

MyPatients provides healthcare professionals the opportunity to enter medical information into mobile handsets while ensuring information security and allowing for personalization of patient care. MyPatients assists in the reduction of errors by capturing and delivering critical medical data at the point of care. My Patients can significantly contribute to lowering escalating healthcare costs by reducing duplicate processes and inefficient systems using technology to bring information to the appropriate people - anytime, anywhere -.

MyPatients provides the mobility and wireless technology crucial for hospitals looking to maximize resources, increase efficiency, and improve patient care.  

The bottom line is that MyPatients allows the staff to spend more time on patient care and less time chasing clinical information. Ultimately patients receive better, faster care - improving the overall healthcare experience.

Benefits:

1.     Relieve clinicians of some of the frustrating tasks related to paper work;

2.     Improve communications;

3.     Improve patient safety;

4.     Provide decision support systems;

5.     Provide data useful in quantifying cognitive care instead of just tasks;

6.     Provide data to differentiate between tasks the computer does well and those that are better         performed by clinicians.